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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for all the odes to Chicago but honestly, if we moved, we'd be a family of 4 with two small kids.  We aren't going to be having regular meals at the chic restaurants, nor going to baseball/football/baskeball games, etc.  Personally,  I know 2-3 friends who LEFT Chicago for other places for lower-key pace of life.  They lived in the city, but once they had 2+ kids, didn't want to deal with city living and schools and didn't want to start over moving to the 'burbs. I would love to hear from people with families talk about family life in Chicago.

Right now, we have a decent lifestyle by DC standards.  I don't need a bigger house (we bought 10+ years ago and have re-fi'ed), our kid(s) are in very good JLKM schools, we have an easy 20-40 min commute to work.  So most of the reasons people have for fleeing DC don't apply to us.

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Do not move to the city. I have family who lived in a great neighborhood in Chicago and it wasn't good for family life. There was a lot of crime, which was a immediate concern not just something you see on the news, and the children couldn't ride bikes around or have a little independence. I know your kids are little but time flies: think about what they'll need five years down the road. The school situation was bad. Chicago has some of the best suburbs in the country at  a relatively affordable price so I would take advantage of that.[/quote]

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